What are the responsibilities and job description for the Regional Project Manager position at MLC (formerly Mississippi Lime)?
Job Title: Regional Project Manager
Why consider a career at MLC?
MLC was recognized by Newsweek as one of America’s Greatest Workplaces in 2024.
- Highly collaborative work environment focused on growth and innovation
- Safety and sustainability are top priorities
- Excellent compensation, benefits, generous perks; focused on employee wellbeing
- Great development and advancement opportunities
- Bring your real self to work, come grow with us!
MLC operates the largest lime facility in the Americas and mines some of the purest limestone reserves in the world…and we are global! The company is committed to development and employee satisfaction. Join our outstanding team!
About the Job
The Regional Project Manager role is assigned to support all regional plants in the company. The Project Manager manages capital spending and supports major outages and minor maintenance projects in that area. They will collaborate closely with the Director of Project Management and specific plant managers or leaders to assess the feasibility of investing capital in projects, prepare scope descriptions, cost estimates, and schedules for each project, expedite projects through the capital approval process, and assist the areas in planning and justifying their capital expenditures.
- Identify Stakeholders on each project, communicate with them, and define what success looks like to each of them.
- Provide construction management supervision and represent MLC in the project construction phase. Ensure MLC Engineering standards, Project Management standards, and Safety standards are followed throughout the project timeline. Maintain compliance with all State and Federal Environmental Laws and Regulations in design of repairs to equipment or installation of new systems.
- Define scopes of work and provide estimates of construction and engineering costs for projects. Work with purchasing to acquire quotations for equipment and services. Quickly perform preliminary feasibility studies and ROI calculations with minimal input from finance. Track project costs and notify appropriate spending approaches approved spending limits in accordance with established policy. Report costs monthly on active projects, notifying management immediately if the project will go over cost by excess of 10%. Develops systems to train and transfer support of plant requirements to operators and supervisors to improve operating discipline to begin cost savings/improvement projects.
- Develop bid packages for equipment, materials, and contractors.
- Issue project schedules and periodic reports on capital project activities in accordance with established policy.
- Generate and provide for each project a final project documentation package which includes all “as-built” drawings and suggested spare parts with pricing / lead times.
- Employees are expected to perform other responsibilities as needed.
Required Qualifications
- Education: Minimum 4 Year STEM Bachelor’s Degree (Mech. Eng. Preferred)
- Experience: At least 5 years of experience in the mining or heavy industrial field.
- Skills: Respond decisively to emergencies as well as exercise sound judgment in problem solving. Excellent communication and writing skills, critical thinking, problem-solving, decision-making, leadership, creativity, organizational abilities, professionalism, and ethics.
- Abilities: Ability to effectively communicate with all functional groups and through all levels of MLC Personnel & Management. Utilizes project management and other engineering tools to optimize project execution.
The Fine Print
Benefits and perquisites may vary based on the nature and location of each job.
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About MLC
MLC, headquartered in St. Louis, Mo., is a leading global supplier of high-calcium lime products and technical solutions. These offerings bring essential performance and value to a broad range of market applications, including metals, construction, chemical synthesis, water and emissions treatment, glass, textiles, plastics, rubber, agriculture, foods and beverages. With over a century in business, MLC has built a reputation on the quality of its products and services, as well as an unwavering commitment to safety, sustainability and service. The company’s expanding global footprint includes a diversified, reliable network of production and distribution facilities in the U.S., as well as in the UK through our Singleton Birch business. For more information, visit https://www.mlc.com/.
